this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2026
605 points (99.0% liked)

Programmer Humor

33172 readers
942 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
anzo@programming.dev
Feyter@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
605
Bites & Bytes (programming.dev)
submitted 14 hours ago by CodiUnicorn@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] embed_me@programming.dev 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Half of a byte

[–] modus@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

What's the other half called?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 7 points 7 hours ago

jeremy

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 6 hours ago

Wait until you learn what the other seven parts of a byte are called when the first one is called a bit.

[–] Cyberfuchs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

One is called high nibble, the other half is called low nibble

[–] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Sounds like a case for the beauty doc